THE PROBLEM WITH HARFOOTS--- WHY ARE THEY ALL SO EVIL?!?!?

I'm just gonna say it the harfords are straight up the worst let me explain there are a few reasons that the Harford storyline is problematic starting with the fact that they don't really have a place in the second age to begin with ignoring for a moment all of the absolutely ludicrous character flaws and bizarre social structure that are depicted in the show brings of power writers JD Payne and Patrick McKay had to stretch really far in order to make this storyline work and my main question is well why essentially the only reason there are hard foots in the second age is because the writers of the show did not have faith in their own ability to write a compelling story and were relying on member berries to keep the audience invested they need characters that the audience were familiar with and brought a sense of Middle Earth because they are incapable of recreating that feeling anywhere else in the show apparently having elves dwarves humans Wizards and Orcs to work with just wasn't enough fantasy characters for the rings of power riders no they need to have Hobbits because you'll come to find out later that the purpose of the harfoots is solely to remind us of The Lord of the Rings Hobbits as they don't actually serve a place in the plot line of the main story of the show so the question is did they succeed well the short answer to that question is a resounding aside from their stature and foot size hartford's barely resembled Peter Jackson's Hobbits Who Loved farming parties and gift giving and are generally seen as a happy-go-lucky group conversely the Harford seemed to love berries and murder take their wheels and leave them you're a psychopath seriously like I have no idea what is motivating the hartfords other than maybe food in episode 5 Nori explains to not Gandalf that they essentially travel to where there is food but that means that this culture of multi-ethnic Hobbits with the wheelbarrows and written language hasn't developed agriculture yet we literally see at the very end of episode 8 they have a garden at the Grove why do they need to keep moving in the lore the harpets are actually the least likely of the three types of Hobbits to migrate and token makes it pretty clear that they spend most of their time in Burrows and tunnels this guy who is literally the leader of a migratory species has the last name Burroughs app regardless of the historical and lore inaccuracies these writers have also managed to turn the most kind and innocent group of people into some of the most cruel and diabolical creatures in Middle Earth dangerous creatures they are you're making it up nope you're right they absolutely are it seems that a majority of the problems for the harfoots comes from their social structure and ethics or rather their lack thereof you see the harfords migrate together and it's a perilous Journey some members of the group occasionally fall behind which is to be expected seeing as there are practically no fit young men Hobbits for some reason but anyways you might think that the rest of the group would rally behind the Fallen members but in the case of the harfords think again repeatedly through the first season we are reminded of the Harford motto nobody goes off trails at first this seems like an innocent and relatively good idea everyone stay on the path and stick together which is a good plan if you're going to be traveling long distances together but the issue is that if you happen to find yourself walking alone you might as well already be dead see if you're a Harford that's fallen behind or has been injured or stopped to try and save your children I'm not even [ __ ] kidding they will literally leave you to die no stopping and waiting no group effort to help someone injured or sick or simply not strong enough to carry on no no no they leave you behind after they have left you to succumb to the harsh elements or Predators or whatever they will remember you by writing your name and how you died in a book and in some strange cult ritual they will read your name out and toast to the harfoots that they abandoned to death and they chant [Music] that was ironic this is some of the most infuriating [ __ ] in the entire show what the [ __ ] do you mean we wait for you like the entire [ __ ] point was that you literally didn't wait for them and they fell behind like bro why didn't you stop and help the lady who stayed behind to help her kids some harfoot died of bee stings and the entire crowd just [ __ ] laughed and then Papa Smurf called him an idiot whoops sorry Majors then after that community meeting is rudely interrupted by not Gandalf the group decides that the punishment for Nori bringing an outsider into the group will be to move the Brandy foots to the back of the Caravan which is essentially a death sentence since Nori's dad is practically useless oh and he broke his leg or something I don't know Nori's mom like the kind caring and understanding mother that she is then makes sure to blame her for killing them and tells her she's not special you're just a child my God they are the worst I just like these characters from the beginning of the show but I didn't think it could get much worse however it seems like the harfits don't even know how messed up their own practices are and that just makes it so much worse take Nori's dad as an example after he inexplicably injures his ankle in a freak tent-raising accident he and his wife have to worry that they will be left behind since it takes a man to carry the cart hey that's Texas and after The Stranger offers to help carry the cart the rest of the way the group wants to take their wheels off of their cart and leave them to die their wheels and leave them okay let me get this straight the Brandy foot family who is already being punished because Nori brought the stranger to the camp is banished to the back of the Caravan to struggle by themselves but that's not enough no no no they need to literally take away their ability to continue on the trip and leave them to fend for themselves because of the stranger right why didn't Nori's family immediately tell not Gandalf just to [ __ ] off because he was causing so much trouble then we get the most painfully cringed Disney princess [ __ ] song about wandering I get legitimately angry when poppy starts singing every single time thank you for ruining my favorite quote you [ __ ] [Music] my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined not Gandalf flip-flops between being a dangerous enemy and an ex machina as he saves some of the harflets then almost hurts Nori which was Nori's fault and now Nori isn't sure he's good after all in the first place then he saves the Grove with magic and also hurts noria's sister in the process which was Nori's fault again so the group finally sends him away only for him to save everyone except for Papa Smurf from The Ring wraiths who've earned all their cards at the end of episode 7 which again was Nori's fault after all that happens Nori's dad who is clearly brainwashed gives one of those cute little rings of power motivational speeches about how the one thing the harfords do better than anyone else in Middle Earth is that they stay true to one another and they have each other's backs what they literally almost left you to die not two episodes ago how the hell did this get past the writer's room seriously like one of the only subplots in the Harford storyline the entire thing is that the Brandy foots are in danger of being left behind by the group The harfords are actually less cruel to not Gandalf than they are to their own kind and at the end of season 1 we leave off with Nori and not Gandalf going off Trail together nobody goes off Trail and nobody walks alone my ass so let's review shall we hard foots are supposed to be sedentary but for some reason migrate even though they have knowledge of Agriculture and I didn't even mention this earlier but their wheels are lined with metal which means they probably have the ability for metal work which doesn't seem very likely at all considering how heavy a forge is harford's say they stick together but will readily abandon the sick weak and injured to die harford's make sure to tell their youth they aren't special harfas will hold grudges against you even for their own mistakes harfits are so suspicious that they blame not Gandalf for things completely out of his control and finally Harford songs make me want to commit several felonies out of cringe and anger I cannot and will not ever forgive the writers of the show for reducing a beautiful token quote into a shitty Disney princess song over a pointless Montage of a thoughtless unnecessary group migration to who the [ __ ] cares oh my God who the hell cares this show could have complete greatly cut out the Harford storyline and not a single thing would change in the plot there isn't a single moment from the harfoot plotline that's necessary for the story to continue it has nothing to do with the rings of power or the hunt for Sauron or the search for mithril essentially the only thing the Harford storyline has accomplished was introducing not Gandalf as a character and they didn't even do that well seriously let's imagine for a moment that the Harford storyline was completely cut out from the show well aside from the harfoots the only other characters we would miss out on are the lady cult people who don't matter at all until like episode 7 and not Gandalf who only learns [ __ ] English like 20 minutes before the end of the season could the writers not think of a better way to introduce a single semi-important character without creating somehow the worst most hateable plotline in the entire show as well I can forgive the bad stage Irish accents and the absolutely ludicrous costume designs but you have to give me interesting characters first I don't care that she's got acorns in her hair just stop making them worse than Sauron I've never in my life heard so many people say they're rooting for the bad guy over the rest of the characters then in the show Once Again rings of power has failed to make us care about any of the characters involved when Papa Smurf died I laughed I'm not even kidding I paused the show to laugh at how [ __ ] silly the entire thing was even after six episodes he'd showed up in I didn't feel a thing when he died except embarrassed and confused at how the [ __ ] a sunrise happened so fast like seriously I really hope in season two the entire rest of the harfits are completely cut out from the story if I have to endure one more poppy singing song I may put a hole through my monitor I hate the hard foots all of them and I hope they never return to the show hey everyone it's Max Soto here I just wanted to say thanks so much for watching this video I had a lot of fun making it and I also appreciate everyone who leaves feedback on here um on all the last videos I've made it's really helpful on my end and it helps me make better videos in the future to hear feedback from you guys so thank you so much it's greatly appreciated um happy holidays uh to everyone who is celebrating and I will see you all in the new year

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Length: 12min 4sec (724 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 27 2022